Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Until recently, I was unaware of the Jewish opposition to the notion that we are all born with a sinful nature. I had always heard it taught, and I assumed it was a universally acknowledged truth. Besides, that people are by nature sinful and in need of a Savior seemed self-evident. I did not know that so many people deny that truth, which is undeniably biblical.

Thinking on this, I realized again how much the apostle Paul learned from God. Mankind’s natural state of sinfulness was a revelation to him from God. It was not personal opinion that inspired Paul to write, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” and “In me, that is, in my flesh(ly nature), dwells no good thing.” Without being greatly humbled by God, and without a revelation from God, Paul would have never even thought to confess such truth as that.

About Me

I am a slave of Jesus who, in obedience to him, has come out of the fragmented religious system of Christianity. I love God's people and want all of us who love the Lord Jesus to be together. This can never happen inside Christianity because that religion is the very thing that divides us. If God is ever going to answer the prayer Jesus prayed in John 17 and make all His children one, it will be accomplished only by the power of the holy Spirit, and it will happen apart from the hundreds of conflicting doctrines and traditions that make up the Christian religion. We come out of all that confusion to offer ourselves to God for healing -- healing from our own ideas and ways. Let's all just admit that we know nothing, and are nothing, and that we need help from Jesus, and let him make us one!